On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:13, Eric Anholt wrote: 
> 
> Seems like we need a set-understood-version ioctl.  What I'm imagining
> is an ioctl that takes in a DRM interface version and/or card-specific
> DRM interface version.  It can then adjust its response to other ioctls
> appropriately.  It would return the maximum of those versions that are
> understood (which is sort of a duplicate of the current version ioctl,
> but the generic DRM interface version is the new part).  There would be
> a hook for the card-specific part of the DRM to get this understood
> version information, too, which may help in dealing with the radeon
> issues that have been discussed.

If you mean the memory layout transition, that won't need this.

> Does this seem like a good idea?

It might still be useful otherwise though.


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